Marlon Ariyasinghe (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University. Marlon’s research interests include South Asian historiography, colorism and nationalisms and Sri Lankan traditional embodied performing practices.
His work has appeared or are forthcoming in Performance Research, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Research International, Mise en Abyme: International Journal of Comparative Literature and Arts, and Phoenix: Sri Lanka Journal of English in the Commonwealth.
Selected directing credits from Sri Lanka, the U.S. and Switzerland include: Exorcism (2025) Twelfth Night (2019), The Clean House (2015), Antigonick (2014), and Rizana (2013).
